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Simplicity Medical Training - Understanding Anaphylaxis for Healthcare Professionals (Support Staff)
This course is designed for healthcare professionals who have a supporting role in the management of a patient with anaphylaxis. It gives a comprehensive understanding of what is happening and how to best assist. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Cancer Council Victoria - Vapes: Considerations for Health Professionals
Vapes: Considerations for Health Professionals, a new online module, is now available to provide information on using vapes for smoking cessation in the new regulatory environment, and on vaping cessation. CPD hours: 1.5 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - Lung Cancer Survivorship
The Survivorship eLearning module equips nurses with essential knowledge and tools to deliver evidence-based survivorship care for lung cancer patients, focusing on quality of life, support, and the nurse's key role. CPD hours: 2 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - A Stepwise Approach to Managing COPD to Prevent Exacerbations
Enrol now to learn about the management of COPD, focusing on individualised care plans and the prevention of exacerbations. CPD hours: 1 hours.
Lung Foundation Australia - The National Lung Cancer Screening Program Health Workforce Education
In partnership with the Australian Government and NACCHO, Lung Foundation Australia invites primary healthcare professionals to complete CPD-accredited modules on eligibility, screening processes, and participant support for lung cancer screening. CPD hours: 3.5 hours.
Monash University - Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme Best Practice Wound Care: Nursing
Monash University has designed a freely available, one hour online training module focused on: wound assessment, wound management and use of the consumables ordering portal. Modules have been designed and tailored for each professional group, in partnership with academics and clinical experts in the field. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Karitane - Breast and Bottle Feeding Basics
By attending this one-hour webinar, you will learn to assess growth and development using specific growth charts in the early years and develop effective communication and partnership skills when working with parents and carers. CPD hours: 1.
University of Sydney - Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Fatty Liver Disease
This online, self-paced, case-based short (4hr) course is tailored for primary care nurses to enhance knowledge in identifying at-risk and managing patients with Metabolic-dysfunction Associated Fatty Liver Disease in Australia. CPD hours: 4 hours.
University of Sydney - Eating Disorders for Primary Health Nurses
This course will provide Primary Health Nurses with knowledge and tools in prevention, identification, screening, and management of patients with eating disorders. Nurses will develop strategies and confidence in talking to and supporting people with eating disorders, awareness of at risk groups and the stigma that is associated with these illnesses. They will also learn about the relevant guidelines available that inform the evidenced based treatment of eating disorders in Australia. CPD hours: 15 hours.
Jean Hailes - Understanding Menopause (for nurses and midwives)
This course is designed to help nurses and midwives improve their understanding of menopause. It covers the difference between perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause and the role nurses and midwives have in menopause management. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Kineo - Code of Conduct for Aged Care Workers
This course equips aged care workers with the knowledge to apply the Code of Conduct, ensuring safety, dignity, and well-being of elderly individuals in residential and home care settings.
Lung Foundation - COPD Measure and Specialist Referral
Lung Foundation Australia has developed a free self-paced eLearning education package focused on identifying and diagnosing people with COPD. The eLearning covers identifying people at risk of COPD, spirometry interpretation, referrals to specialists and more. CPD hours: 1.5 hours.
HealthCert - Obesity and Its Management
This course explores nursing roles in obesity management, focusing on prevention, lifestyle counselling, medications, and bariatric surgery, emphasizing education, health literacy, and sustained patient collaboration for effective care. CPD hours: 5 hours.
HealthCert - Asthma and Other Respiratory Conditions in Children and Adolescents
This comprehensive paediatric respiratory course is designed to help healthcare professionals identify and manage common respiratory conditions in children and adolescents. You'll also learn how to manage acute asthma, croup, bronchiolitis, and CAP. CPD hours: 5 hours.
HealthCert - Diabetes Mellitus
This course covers diabetes mellitus, including diagnosis, glycaemic control, patient education, and comprehensive management strategies addressing diet, lifestyle, weight, renal function, comorbidities, and medical glycaemia management. CPD hours: 6 hours.
HealthCert - Elder Abuse
This course covers elder abuse, including prevalence, signs, injuries, differential diagnoses, assessment, nurse roles, risk factors, and support services, with focus on physical, emotional, sexual, and neglect-related harm. CPD hours: 5 hours.
Lung Foundation - Diagnosis of Breathlessness
The eLearning introduces the breathlessness checklist and shared-care tool. It also provides practical self-management advice for patients, and ongoing resources and support. CPD hours: 3 hours.
HealthCert - Men's Cases: Lifestyle Choices and the Impact on Health and Wellbeing
This course examines the health impacts of men’s lifestyle choices, such as smoking, alcohol, obesity, and inactivity. It provides prevention strategies, case studies, and tools for supporting positive lifestyle changes in patients. CPD hours: 5 hours.
BEAT Bladder Cancer Australia - Bladder Cancer
Bladder Cancer – free, online modular 3-hour education program targeted specifically for primary healthcare nurses. Video & information sheet learning following the patient journey: Symptoms – Diagnosis – Treatment – Support. Includes key takeaway points. CPD hours: 3 hours.
AGPAL - Yana, heart and Stroke Healing
Yana offers five engaging eLearning modules to support the frontline health workforce in providing culturally safe care, with a focus on the recovery and management of heart disease and stroke. CPD hours: 10 hours.
Praxhub - Bronchiolitis
Important updates on changing epidemiology and presentations of bronchiolitis in primary care. Including at-risk children, evidence-based management, and emerging options for mitigating effects in the community. CPD hours: 0.5 hours.
Praxhub - The many guises of infant & pre-schooler cough
Understand the many and varied types and causes of both acute and chronic cough in pre-school aged children.
Praxhub - The cough that sometimes kills: An update on RSV for GPs and paediatricians
Important insights into the evolving epidemiology of RSV in Australia including emerging treatments and preventative measures. CPD hours: 1.5 hours
Praxhub - Understanding RSV
Discover an effective framework for timely identification and care direction, based on the symptoms of the child, and their at-risk characteristics. CPD hours: 0.5 hours.
HealthCert - Depression in the Elderly
This course offers an understanding of depression and suicide risk in older people and designed to equip nurses with the necessary knowledge and skills for providing effective care. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Saged - Medical Cannabis and Conditions Affecting Intersex and Assigned Female At Birth People
This course for nurses explores medical cannabis as a potential treatment for under-recognised conditions affecting people assigned female at birth and intersex individuals, including endometriosis, PCOS, PMDD, and menopause. CPD hours: 5.5 hours.
Centre for Culture Ethnicity and Health - Introduction to Cultural Competence Suite
The Introduction to Cultural Competence BUNDLE 3 gives you knowledge and skills to work with people from any culture or language group. You’ll learn skills to reduce misunderstandings caused by culture or language and then practice these skills through simulated activities. The suite gives you a framework to understand Australian cultural diversity. It sets a clear, positive agenda for how you can create a workplace that’s great for refugees and migrants. You'll also go in-depth on how to use interpreters and translations effectively. CPD hours: 2.5 hours.
Spirometry Training Company - Spirometry Training
These comprehensive courses feature a combination of engaging videos, interactive exercises, quizzes, a practical workshop and expert guidance, ensuring you develop a solid understanding of the foundational concepts that underpin quality spirometry. CPD hours: 10 hours.
Saged - Tailoring Cannabis Treatment: Consider Prior Cannabis Exposure for Nurses
Improve patient care in medical cannabis treatment by considering prior cannabis exposure. Learn about cannabis interactions, identifiers, and safe treatment recommendations. CPD hours: 6 hours.
ASHM - Sexual Health: Management & Care for Nurses and Midwives
This course helps nurses, midwives, and sexual health workers understand and manage STIs, HIV, and hepatitis B, fostering confidence in proactive, practical, and evidence-based health care. CPD hours: 9.5 hours.
Murdoch Children's Research Institute - PEDS Foundation (Course 1) and PEDS Advanced Practice (Course 2)
Parents’ Evaluation of Developmental Status (PEDS) is an evidence-based method for detecting and addressing developmental and behavioural concerns and children. PEDS is a simple, 10-item questionnaire, completed by the parent. CPD hours: 3 hours.
ASHM - STIs and BBVs for Nurses and Midwives
This course has been developed to provide primary health care nurses and midwives with an understanding of the most common STIs and BBVs, including epidemiology, clinical presentation, and testing. CPD hours: 2 hours.
Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer: Cervical Screening, HPV and Self-Collection: Clinical Education Course
The Cervical Screening, HPV and Self-collection online course aims to equip healthcare providers with the knowledge and skills required to support their patients to make an informed cervical screening choice. CPD hours: 6 hours.
Arterial Education - Trust your gut - Identifying upper gastrointestinal cancers in general practice
Address the low survival rates of upper GI cancers with this activity focussing on identifying non-specific symptoms and facilitating the two-week recommended referral time for specialist investigation and intervention. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Karitane - Talking with families about healthy growth and development
By attending this 1 hour webinar you will learn to assess growth and development using specific growth charts in the early years and develop effective communication/ partnership skills when working with parents/carers. CPD hours: 1 hour.
The Obesity Collective - Understanding the science and reality of obesity for better patient care
Understanding the Science and Reality of Obesity for Better Patient Care is a new, free 1 hr module which includes the latest science, tips for best practice and personal experiences. CPD hours: 1.
SA Dental - Better Oral Health in Residential Care for Nurses
This course provides an understanding of evidence-based oral health care in aged care, including implementation of four key oral health processes: assessment, care planning, daily care and initiating a dental referral. CPD hour: 3 hours.
SAGED - Medical Cannabis Fundamentals: The Essential Guide to Patient Care for Nurses
This course is tailored to equip nursing professionals with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to navigate Australia's evolving medical cannabis landscape. You will gain the ability to describe cannabis medicines accurately and identify appropriate patient cohorts. Delve into the benefits, regulations, and practical aspects of medical cannabis, enhancing your ability to provide comprehensive care to patients. CPD hours: 5 hours.
ASHM - NSW Introduction to Syphilis for Midwives and Clinicians Providing Antenatal Care
This OLM is designed to provide midwives and clinicians providing antenatal care in NSW, with the tools to identify priority populations for antenatal syphilis testing, and distinguish the stages of syphilis infection based on a patient’s history/clinical presentation. This one-hour OLM will outline treatment guidelines, including more complex clinical scenarios, as well as the process of contract tracing after diagnosis. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Kineo - Manual Tasks in Aged Care
Kineo's Manual Tasks in Aged Care course has been designed to provide people working in residential and home aged care services with an understanding of why and how musculoskeletal injuries occur, as well as some practical tips on how to perform manual tasks as safely as possible. CPD hours: 30 minutes.
Kineo - Peripheral Intravenous Cannulation
This course has been developed to provide an understanding of how to insert a peripheral intravenous cannula (PIVC) into an adult patient and to prevent and control healthcare associated infections (HAIs) associated with this procedure. CPD hours: 1 hour & 30 minutes.
Kineo - Person-centred Care in Aged Care
This course has been developed to provide staff who provide care in residential and home care settings an understanding of why person-centred care is essential, the benefits to the carer and consumer, and the principles and practices of implementing person-centred care. CPD hours: 40 minutes.
Kineo - Understanding Dementia - Effective Communication
This course will teach the learner how to practise good, effective communication when caring for someone living with dementia, including verbal and non-verbal communication. It also will teach the learner to recognise when someone is communicating a need and how to fulfil these needs while maintaining dignity in care. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Kineo - Understanding Dementia - Person Centred Care
This course has been developed to give the learner an understanding of what person-centred care means and the knowledge necessary to apply it when caring for people living with dementia. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Kineo - Understanding Dementia - What is Dementia?
This course has been developed to give the learner an understanding of what dementia is, as well as prepare them to provide person-centred care for people living with dementia. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Kineo - Reporting Abuse and Serious Incidents in Home and Community Aged Care Services
Consumers need to be treated with the dignity and respect they deserve. Legislation changes have updated the reporting requirements for all workers in Australian home and community aged care environments. This course covers these requirements, meeting the new legislative need and helping provide person-centred care to all consumers. CPD hours: 1 hour & 5 minutes.
Kineo - Reporting Abuse and Serious Incidents in Residential Aged Care
In 2021, amendments to the Aged Care Act 1997 were passed, bringing into effect the Serious Incident Response Scheme (or SIRS). This course has been developed to provide an understanding of how to identify, report and respond to the abuse of older people who are in a care relationship. CPD hours: 50 minutes.
Kineo - Safe Medication Management Including IV Therapy
The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice includes the administration of medications and intravenous (IV) therapy. The safe administration of medication is a crucial skill and key professional development in healthcare. This course provides suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. CPD hours: 1 hour.
Kineo - Safe Medication Management
The course is designed for qualified nurses and midwives whose scope of practice does not include the administration intravenous (IV) therapy medication. The safe administration of medication is a crucial skill and key professional development in healthcare. This course provides suitably qualified nurses and midwives with an understanding of best practice for safe medication management, medication administration and medication calculation. CPD hours: 50 minutes.
Kineo - Workplace Aggression and Violence in Healthcare
This course teaches about workplace aggression and violence in healthcare, including impacts, risks, prevention, response strategies, and post-incident actions. CPD hours: 1 hour
Healthy Bones Australia - Osteoporosis for Primary Health Care Nurses
Healthy Bones Australia online course for practice nurses, accredited by APNA. 5 modules covering osteoporosis prevalence, risk factors, fractures, treatment. Includes case studies and quiz questions. CPD hours: 2 hours and 40 minutes.
Kineo - Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers
Kineo’s hand hygiene course has been developed as infection prevention training for workers in healthcare environments. The goal of this training is to encourage hand hygiene practices that stop and control the spread of infection and prevent healthcare associated infections. CPD hours: 15 minutes.
Kineo - Health Services Induction
This course provides an understanding of some of the key requirements of workers in the health services industry and provides an overview understanding of patient safety, infection control, workplace safety, fire safety and emergency management, professional conduct in the workplace and what to do if you are being bullied or harassed, managing occupational violence and aggression, and privacy and confidentiality. CPD hours: 45 minutes.
Kineo - Healthcare Emergency Preparedness
Kineo’s Healthcare Emergency Preparedness course is a short, behaviourally-focused course, designed so that when the worst happens, healthcare workers can respond quickly and appropriately. Throughout the training, learners are provided with clear training regarding each colour code – what it’s called for, when it should be called, and how to respond. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Kineo - Infection Prevention and Control - Standard Precautions
This course provides an understanding of: standard precautions used in healthcare environments to prevent and control infection, effective hand hygiene, respiratory hygiene, cough etiquette, the importance of a clean environment how to use personal protective equipment safely, the importance of reprocessing reusable instruments and equipment, and asepsis and aseptic technique. CPD hours: 1 hour and 10 minutes.
Kineo - Infection Prevention and Control - The Basics
This course will give the learner an understanding of some of the steps they can take to start controlling the risk of infection. Such as: basic microbiology, the body’s defence mechanisms, healthcare associated infections, the chain of infection, and infection prevention and control measures used to minimise infection transmission risk. CPD hours: 30 minutes.
Kineo - Infection Prevention and Control - Transmission Based Precautions
This course will provide an understanding of transmission-based precautions used in healthcare environments to prevent and control infection, what contact precautions, what droplet precautions are, and what airborne precautions are and how to use them against infectious agents. CPD hours: 30 minutes.
Kineo - Falls Prevention in Home Care
This course has been developed to provide learners with an understanding of the serious repercussions of falls, and how to prevent them, in individuals receiving home care. Especially staff who can identify changes in the health or mobility of people receiving care and report it so that falls prevention strategies can be put in place. CPD hours: 45 minutes.
Kineo - Falls Prevention Programs in Home Care
This course has been developed to provide learners with an understanding of the serious repercussions of falls, and how to prevent them, in individuals receiving residential aged care. Especially staff who can identify changes in the health or mobility of people receiving care and report it so that falls prevention strategies can be put in place. CPD hours: 45 minutes.
Kineo - Falls Prevention in Residential Aged Care
This course has been developed to give home care workers an understanding of the need for a falls prevention program, as well as how to effectively establish and maintain a program. This training is targeted at nominated falls prevention ‘program leads’ – staff with key responsibilities for managing and implementing control programs for a wider team. CPD hours: 45 minutes.
Kineo - Falls Prevention Programs in Residential Aged Care
This course has been developed to give residential aged care workers an understanding of the need for a falls prevention program, as well as how to effectively establish and maintain a program. This training is targeted at nominated falls prevention ‘program leads’ – staff with key responsibilities for managing and implementing control programs for a wider team. CPD hours: 45 minutes.
Kineo - Food Allergens in Aged Care
Food allergies and intolerances are among the fastest-growing chronic conditions, affecting approximately 1 in 5 Australians. This course has been designed to provide learners working in residential and home-based care settings with an understanding of food allergies, and the procedures and strategies that ensure consumers are provided with food that is safe for them. CPD hours: 40 minutes.
Lateral Connections - Minimising vaccine-preventable conditions (with a focus on pertussis) in adult patients with chronic lung disease
Approximately one third of Australians are affected by chronic respiratory conditions and have a specific set of vaccination recommendations. This CPD module aims to assist healthcare professionals describe the rationale for updating vaccinations in patients with chronic lung disease, discuss the consequences of under-vaccination in patients with asthma and COPD and recommend appropriate immunisations for patients with chronic lung disease. CPD hours: 2 hours.
Kineo - Antimicrobial Stewardship in Aged Care
It’s important that all staff in your organisation understand the importance of antimicrobial stewardship, and know how to establish and sustain an antimicrobial stewardship program and the part they play, most notably Infection Control Managers, Registered Nurses, Enrolled Nurse and Clinical Managers. Antimicrobial stewardship programs improve the health outcomes for older people in care or receiving care. CPD hours: 50 minutes.
Kineo - Assist Clients With Medication
This course has been developed to provide care and support workers with an understanding of how to assist clients in aged care, home and community settings with their medication needs. This course is mapped to a unit of competency, that being HLTHPS006 - Assist clients with medication, for any organisation looking to attain this level through a registered training organisation. CPD hours: 2 hours 10 minutes.
Kineo - Basic Life Support
The Basic Life Support course is refresher training developed to provide healthcare professionals with a general understanding of how to respond in an emergency situation. The course is designed to be consistent with the Australian and New Zealand Committee on Resuscitation (ANZCOR) guidelines. Basic Life Support teaches based on the DRSABCD structure, as outlined by ANZCOR. CPD hours: 55 minutes.
Kineo - Care Planning in Aged Care
Care plans help guide the care and services that aged care consumers receive. They are unique to each consumer and developed in partnership with consumers, their family or advocates, and staff. It is crucial that Aged Care organisations have standardised processes for creating and following care plans. Staff also have a role to play in helping to keep them up-to-date. CPD hours: 40 minutes.
Kineo - End Stage Dementia
This course has been developed to help aged care workers provide effective, person-centred care through the difficult end stages of dementia. It maintains a focus on helping to achieve care for the consumer’s emotional, spiritual, social and cultural requirements, and a collaborative approach towards entering palliative care. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 1: Consumer dignity and choice
The goal of this course is to teach learners the importance of what Standard 1 means for consumers: That they are treated with dignity and respect and can maintain their identity. They can make informed choices about their care and services and live the life they choose. CPD hours: 40 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 2 Ongoing assessment and planning with consumers
The goal of this course is to teach learners what is expected of them with the introduction of Standard 2, building on what they learned in Standard 1. Consumers must be partners in the ongoing assessment and planning that helps them get the care and services they need for their health and well-being. CPD hours: 35 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 3 Personal care and clinical care
The goal of this course is to teach learners the importance of what Standard 3 means for consumers: That they get personal care, clinical care, or both, that is safe and right for them as an individual. CPD hours: 40 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 4: Services and supports for daily living
The goal of this course is to teach learners what Standard 4 means for consumers: They get the services and supports for their daily living that is important for their health and well-being, and that enables them to do the things they want to do. This support can come in a variety of ways, from helping consumers with cooking and cleaning or helping them take part in social activities. CPD hours: 35 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 5: Organisation’s service environment
The goal of this course is to teach learners what Standard 5 means for consumers: that they must feel like they belong, and they are safe and comfortable in the organisation's service environment. CPD hours: 15 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 6 Feedback and complaints
The goal of this course is to teach learners what is expected of the organisation’s service environment with the introduction of Standard 6: that consumers feel safe, and they are encouraged and supported to give feedback and make complaints. They must be engaged in processes to address their feedback and complaints, and appropriate action is taken regarding their feedback and complaints. CPD hours: 25 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 7 Human resources
The goal of this course is to teach learners what is expected of the organisation’s service environment with the introduction of Standard 7: that consumers get quality care and services when they need them from people who are knowledgeable, capable and caring. CPD hours: 25 minutes.
Kineo - Aged Care Quality Standard 8 Organisational governance
The goal of this course is to teach learners what is expected of the organisation’s service environment with the introduction of Standard 8: that consumers are confident the organisation is well run and are partners in improving the delivery of care and services. CPD hours: 20 minutes.
Caring@home - Teaching carers/families to use subcutaneous medicines to help manage symptoms
These modules introduce resources to support community-based primary health care nurses to teach carers/families to help manage end-of-life symptoms for a person at home. The resources focus on teaching carers/families to safely use subcutaneous medicines thereby supporting best-practice palliative care for patients who wish to be cared for, and to die at home, if possible. CPD hours: 1 hours.
Kultchafi - Cultural Responsiveness Training for Nurses
Kultchafi Cultural Responsiveness Training for Primary Health Care Nurses is tailored to the industry. Delivered in a self-paced online model, it is award-winning and multi-accredited, and includes a self-audit and action planning. CPD hours: 8 hours.
Pfizer - Adolescent Vaccination in General Practice
A series of interactive online sessions discussing the latest vaccine recommendations, the identification of recommended vaccines for different patient groups, and the key role of general practice in improving vaccine uptake among the population. CPD hours: 1 hour.
